Foothills Fescue Range Plant Community Guide - Sustainable ...

List of Figures
Fig. 1. Natural Subregions in southern Alberta, and the SCAs that they correlate with.
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Fig. 2. Ecodistricts in the Foothills Fescue, and the Buffalo Hill Upland areas. ...............5
Fig. 3. Foothills Fescue, and the Buffalo Hill Upland areas, and adjoining natural
subregions in SW Alberta. ......................................................................................6
Fig. 4. Soil textures and their relationship to ecological range sites ................................17
Fig. 5 An example of an SLM code ...................................................... .........................76
List of Tables
Table 1. Key distinguishing features of the Foothills Fescue Natural Subregion
compared with neighbouring Natural Subregions. .....................................7
Table 2. Summary of climatic data for selected stations in the Foothills Fescue
Natural Subregion .......................................................................................2
Table 3. Major soils and associated ecological/range sites, by Ecodistrict or area.
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Table 4. Soil correlation with range sites in SCA 5................................................12
Table 5. Soil correlation with range sites in SCA 6.................................................13
Table 6. Definition of soil particle sizes .................................................................16
Table 7. Functions and attributes of healthy rough fescue plant communities .......21
Table 8. Percent of plots with Kentucky bluegrass, Timothy or awnless brome
grass in two Natural Subregions................................................................24
Table 9. Plant communities listed by ecological range site within the Foothills
Fescue grassland .......................................................................................28
Table 10. Range plant communities and ecologically sustainable stocking rates by
ecological range site within the Foothills Fescue grassland.....................30
Table 11. Litter normals for the Foothills Fescue. ....................................................66
Table 12 Soil exposure normals for major range sites in the Foothills Fescue
grassland. ..................................................................................................67
Table 13. Ecological/range sites, with definitions and abbreviated AGRASID
correlations ................................................................................................74
Table 14 Description of soil model unit numbers ....................................................77
Table 15 Selected stoniness classes ....................................................................... .79
Table 16 Description of undifferentiated soil models .......................................... ..79
Table 17 Description of selected landscape models ................................................80
Table 18 Surface form modifiers .............................................................................81
Table 19 Soil series of SCA 5 ................................................................................. 82
Table 20 Soil series of SCA 6 ..................................................................................83
Table 21. Outlier communities are those sites which are unclassified due to small
sample size or insufficient data. ................................................................84
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